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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Coreyartus" data-source="post: 1117746" data-attributes="member: 5399">Those same long adventures are almost two products for the price of one:  isn't it fun to read a mod through for the first time?  It's like a novelette--I kinda "play" it in my head as I go along.  I love that!  I don't mind paying around $15-20 for a good mod, as long as it has the quality, length, and visual aids, as well as enough generic flavor so it has the potential for future use in any home campaigns I might develop.On the other hand, sometimes having a juicy mod that takes place in my favorite campaign setting can be SO worth it!  Regardless of whether I actually get to DM it...  Half the mods I've purchased I'll never actually judge--I just liked reading them!  Admit it--buying something and actually using it are two different things, especially when it comes to RPGs, right?Two ideas from this thread could develop into quite interesting commercial experiments:  1) A "serial" campaign, where the setting changes and expands from mod to mod, published at regular intervals, perhaps from the reported results of players of each installment.  A good part-time campaign, players could subscribe to each monthly mod for the quality of the story development, then be able to put it aside when they want to play their regular campaign.  It's like crossing a comic-book with a campaign, without having to invest in tons of source books.2)  Truly generic adventures with blanks for names; no limiting maps but the adventure's geographical necessities listed instead; no plot lines inherent to any company-favored settings, but with plenty of suggestions and opportunities written in for homebrew campaign plot hooks and development.  "This NPC could help the DM do this..." or "this locale is good for DM's that need a place to do this..."  Most published adventures don't include guides for incorporating homebrew campaigns.  Publishers would instead like to do the creative stuff for you because they say it's easier, but really it's more fun!  Name-It-Yourself mods with plug-'em-in locales and NPC's would be very interesting.In the end, either the mods have to have a great story with fantastically interesting encounters, or they have to be generic enough for DMs to do that themselves.  Most of the adventures on the market today uncomfortably straddle both worlds, and accomplish neither aspect very well.Just my two cents!!Coreyartus</blockquote>

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